Online testing has become a common way to organize formative assessment in higher
education. When student participation is stimulated by grading formative tests that are held in an …

This paper measures the impact of monetary policy shocks on regional and sectoral
output_x000D_ in the Netherlands for the period 1973 to 1993. We document large regional and …

The importance of math skills for study success in economics has been widely researched.
This article adds to the literature by combining information on students’ math skills and their …

We provide empirical evidence on the link between stock market volatility and macroeconomic
uncertainty. We show that US stock market volatility is significantly related to the …

In this study, the authors investigate the relationships among gender, math skills, motivation,
and study success in economics and econometrics. They find that female students have …

The two decades prior to the credit crisis witnessed a strategic shift from a traditional,
relationships-oriented model (ROM) to a transactions-oriented model (TOM) of financial …

Since the inception of EMU, a common concern is that European monetary policy may have
differential effects on EMU member countries. However, the reliance on cross-country …

This paper uses national data on 450 Dutch bachelor programs to measure the effect of the
introduction of academic dismissal policies on study progress and first-year drop-out. Our …

This paper measures the impact of timing on student evaluations of teaching effectiveness,
using a dataset of close to 3000 observations from Erasmus School of Economics. A special …

… Ivo Arnold is the director of education at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands (e-mail: arnold@few.eur.nl), and a professor of economics at …